Regulatory News:
Wavecom (Paris:AVM) (NASDAQ:WVCM) and Celevoke today announce the
signing of a Memorandum of Understanding outlining plans to work
together in the development and marketing of Celevoke automotive and
motorbike tracking products using the Wavecom Q2687 Wireless CPU®
and related services.
The Celevoke Anti-theft Tracking System is initially targeted to the
Brazil and USA markets, with the ultimate objective of expansion into
other South and North American markets. Celevoke is developing its
proprietary next-generation anti-theft tracking system using Wavecom
Open AT® Software Suite to embed their application directly
on the device – cutting both development time and bill of materials.
Custom offerings of the advanced system are focused on the dynamic power
sports (motorcycles, quads, wave runners, snow mobiles etc) and
recreational vehicles markets. Already top insurance companies have
agreed to offer their customers significant discounts for employing the
system.
"In order to succeed with this project, we knew we needed the most
robust, automotive-grade, cost-effective cellular radio solution
available,” said Celevoke CEO Chuck Allen. "That’s why we chose
Wavecom’s Q2687. It allows us to save on component costs and get to
market that much faster – to our benefit and that of our customers.”
"Wavecom is delighted with being chosen by Celevoke to work on and
enable this dynamic solution,” said Anders Franzen, President of Wavecom
Inc. "Celevoke knows anti-theft tracking and stolen vehicle recovery,
and we’re proud to help keep insurance costs in check for business and
consumers, especially in today’s difficult economic environment.”
The new Wavecom-based Celevoke system is expected to reach the market in
Brazil and the U.S. in the second quarter of this year.
About Celevoke
Celevoke is poised to become a market
leader in the projected $38.3 billion (by 2011) global market for
Telematics (according to ABI Research), which is the integrated use of
telecommunications and informatics. More specifically, it is the science
of sending, receiving and storing information wirelessly via
telecommunication devices. Celevoke has integrated Telematics and Global
Positioning Systems (GPS) with sensing technology. This proprietary
suite of hardware and software products enables users to remotely
monitor, track, control and protect a wide variety of asset classes.
Examples include people, automobiles and trucks, shipping containers and
covert vehicles used for law enforcement and intelligence gathering in a
global marketplace. Celevoke is 60% owned by Current Technology
(OTCBB:CRTCF).
Wavecom – the wireless M2M experts
Wavecom is a leading
provider of embedded wireless technology for M2M (machine-to-machine)
communication. We provide a range of GSM/GPRS, CDMA, EDGE and 3G
Wireless CPUs; programmable processors which also act as wireless
modules or wireless modems. These are backed by a C and Lua-based
cellular wireless software suite which includes a real-time operating
system (RTOS), a software development environment based on Eclipse™, and
several Plug-Ins (GPS, TCP/IP, security, Bluetooth™, Lua script and
more). We also offer a wide range of professional and operated services.
Our solutions are used for automotive telematics, smart metering, fleet
management, GSM/GPS/satellite tracking, wireless alarms, wireless POS
(point of sales), WLL (fixed voice), remote monitoring and many other
M2M applications.
Founded in 1993 and headquartered near Paris, France, Wavecom has
subsidiaries in Hong Kong (PRC), Research Triangle Park, NC (USA), São
Paulo (Brazil), Farnborough (UK) and Munich (Germany). Wavecom is
publicly traded on Euronext Paris’ Eurolist in France (AVM) and on the
Nasdaq exchange in the U.S. (WVCM).
http://www.wavecom.com